Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there a Senate contest in 1960. Di Salle acknowledged that Kennedy was well liked in the state (he has made speeches in all major cities, and polls show him out ahead as the favorite 1960 Democrat). Also, it was obvious that Kennedy's Catholicism would be no handicap in Ohio, since Mike Di Salle and U.S. Senator and longtime (1945-56) Governor Frank Lausche, both Catholics, have rolled up big majorities in the past...
Brand-new French Peugeot bicycles cost 1,000 dongs-roughly three years' salary -and the few available ancient autos cost twice that, with the additional handicap that on the black market gasoline is $5 a gallon. Taken on tour of Hanoi's newly cleaned streets and decorated landmarks, Sukarno did not get to see Hanoi's most interesting place, the "bicycle market," where Ming vases and other heirlooms, sold by desperate families, go for less than more useful bicycles...
...bachelor until 42, Quesada married Mrs. Kate Pulitzer Putman, daughter of the late St. Louis Post-Dispatch Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, in 1946, now has four children. For relaxation, he plays golf (handicap: 9) or tennis. But most of his time is spent in his office on the third floor of a converted hospital across from Washington's Corcoran Art Gallery, where he logs twelve hours a day. He works standing up, telephone to his ear, or prowls back and forth between his desk and work table. His friends insist that he tries to do too much himself, but General...
...many pews may be empty in England, but the easy chairs, sofas and hassocks in front of television sets are well warmed. What is more, TV producers want more clergymen to man their panel-discussion programs. This chance to talk to a vast new congregation is hampered by one handicap: pulpit-trained preachers and priests often show up as poor performers on the TV screen...
...goat's'' last place. Less fortunate was Navy's All-American Tackle Bob Reifsnyder, who graduated in last place as Annapolis' "anchor man." Reifsnyder got no commission because of football injuries and high blood pressure, instead will go where such defects are no handicap-the Los Angeles Rams...